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An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 48
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Lastly, Christ comforts in sufferings, by instructing thee of the good use, 1and heavenly advantage all these tribulations shall turn unto, which is two-fold, they shall,
- 15. By instructing them of the spiritual advantages which come from such sufferings.
1. Turn to thy own spiritual and eternal good. Thou shalt hereby be more purified from thy filth and corruption; this will winnow away thy chaff; this fire will purge out thy dross; this will be a School, wherein thou wilt learn more spiritual and divine knowledge in heavenly things, then ever before. Sufferings have taught more than vast libraries, or the best books can teach.
1. Turn to thy own spiritual and eternal good. Thou shalt hereby be more purified from thy filth and corruption; this will winnow away thy chaff; this fire will purge out thy drosse; this will be a School, wherein thou wilt learn more spiritual and divine knowledge in heavenly things, then ever before. Sufferings have taught more than vast libraries, or the best books can teach.
Again, They will conduce to thy eternal Glory. God taketh up every tear in his bottle; how much more every drop of blood? For indeed by suffering in the work of the Lord, thou art more than Angelical; though the Angels do the will of God purely, cheerfully and constantly, yet they meet with no troubles nor persecutions for it, as believers do. No wonder therefore if God at last take his Joseph's out of prison, and sets them on thrones of glory. Besides, believers are comforted, because they know all their sufferings will turn to the advantage of the Church. Others are comforted and encouraged by this; what rejoicing doth this create in the heart of a believer? as we may show more largely in the next verse.